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Field reports, deep-dives, and patterns from the AWS work we do for SaaS, healthcare, fintech, and education teams.
Jun 22, 2026
How to Reduce Your AWS Bill with Automated Cost Alerts
AWS has no spending cap, so costs climb unnoticed. Reduce your AWS bill with automated cost alerts: CloudWatch, AWS Budgets, and Cost Anomaly Detection.
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- cost-optimization
- aws-msp
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Dec 5, 2025
AWS DevOps Agent Preview: Faster Incident Response
AWS DevOps Agent is in preview at re:Invent 2025: automated incident investigation, root cause analysis, and proactive reliability checks.
- aws
- devops
- aws-msp
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Dec 5, 2025
AWS IAM Policy Autopilot: Smarter Policy Generation
AWS IAM Policy Autopilot generates accurate IAM policies straight from your code, cutting guesswork and Access Denied errors. Here's how it works.
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- devops
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Dec 3, 2025
Amazon EKS re:Invent 2025: New Workload Capabilities
Amazon EKS adds Kubernetes-native orchestration, GitOps, and cloud resource management at re:Invent 2025. What changes for platform teams.
- aws
- application-modernization
- cloud-strategy
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Dec 3, 2025
AWS Clean Rooms Synthetic Data (re:Invent 2025)
AWS Clean Rooms ML now generates synthetic data for privacy-safe model training and cross-cloud collaboration. Here's how it works.
- aws
- application-modernization
- aws-msp
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Dec 2, 2025
AWS Lambda Managed Instances (re:Invent 2025)
AWS re:Invent 2025 introduced Lambda Managed Instances: Lambda functions running on managed EC2, with EC2 pricing and no cold starts.
- aws
- cost-optimization
- devops
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Dec 2, 2025
Route 53 Global Resolver: Secure Hybrid DNS
AWS Route 53 Global Resolver brings internet-reachable DNS to hybrid networks, remote teams, and multi-region setups. Here's what shipped.
- aws
- cloud-strategy
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Nov 22, 2025
DevSecOps & SOC 2: Automate SaaS Compliance
Automate DevSecOps and SOC 2 compliance with continuous security, access governance, and audit-ready evidence collection for SaaS teams.
- devops
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Nov 18, 2025
Cloudflare Outage 2025: What Caused the Disruption
What caused the November 18, 2025 Cloudflare outage that knocked ChatGPT, X, and Spotify offline for millions of users.
- cloudflare
- devops
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